54
Quality Score
Solid
Spend Smart Eat Smart
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Spend Smart Eat Smart is an Android app from Iowa State University of Science and Technology in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.7★ across 27 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$155/mo
In 12 months
$78 – $726
In 24 months
$78 – $2174
MICRO tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$30K |
| ⚙9.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$55K |
Total estimate$140K
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 🏷Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
82%
Last shipped 2024-09-16 · 614 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅1y 8mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| 👥Small user base (27 ratings) + 9.2y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$155/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$99 – $396
12 months
$78 – $726
24 months
$78 – $2.2K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 36/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.7
Product Quality
3.8
Revenue Strength
2.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.8
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.73★ across 27 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 613d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (613d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $2K-$4K. Portfolio play ($456/mo combined) commands premium.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (27 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v1.0.10🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Food & Drink💰 Free🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
📝 About this app
Iowa State University’s Spend Smart Eat Smart app for Android is an easy way to get our latest updates and recipes on the go. Save money. Eat nutritiously. Enjoy great new recipes.
Never overpay at the store again! With the Spend Smart Eat Smart app, you’ll save money on groceries using our comparison calculator to find the best bargains. Why pay more when you could get the same products for less, right? While you’re here, make sure to check out our recipes page: a new one is featured weekly so you’ll never hear, “we’re having that again?” from your family.… View full description on the official store →
Never overpay at the store again! With the Spend Smart Eat Smart app, you’ll save money on groceries using our comparison calculator to find the best bargains. Why pay more when you could get the same products for less, right? While you’re here, make sure to check out our recipes page: a new one is featured weekly so you’ll never hear, “we’re having that again?” from your family.… View full description on the official store →
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Spend Smart Eat Smart
- Developer
- Iowa State University of Science and Technology
- Bundle ID
- edu.iastate.spendsmarteatsmart
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- spendsmarteatsmart.org
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $156/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth27 ratings+42% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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2apps·$456/mocombined
Lead-app heavy — top app contributes 66%
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Spend Smart Eat Smart: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
8 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Spend Smart Eat Smart make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Spend Smart Eat Smart earns approximately $155/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Spend Smart Eat Smart profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $155, Spend Smart Eat Smart looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Spend Smart Eat Smart?▾
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What is Spend Smart Eat Smart built with?▾
Our heuristic places Spend Smart Eat Smart on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Spend Smart Eat Smart still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (82% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Spend Smart Eat Smart last updated?▾
Spend Smart Eat Smart last shipped a new version on 2024-09-16 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Spend Smart Eat Smart?▾
Spend Smart Eat Smart is published by Iowa State University of Science and Technology on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Spend Smart Eat Smart's BU Score?▾
Spend Smart Eat Smart has a BU Score of 54/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.